NVMe M.2 Adapter PCIe SSD to PCI-e X4 / X8 / X16 Controller Expansion Card, M.2 (NGFF) SSD Pcie Adapter Converter Card with with Aluminum Heat Sink for M.2 (M Key) NVMe SSD 2280/2260/2242/2230

I bought this with the intention of migrating everything to an M.2 PCIe card, and using it for a boot drive. Everything migrated just fine, and that's when I discovered my board and bios were too old to boot from PCIe. OOPS. So, if you're planning something similar, check your bios to ensure your board will boot to PCIe. Chances are, if your board doesn't have an M.2 slot already, it may not. That said, this card works great. It adapts an M.2 PCIe SSD to a PCIe slot. To have all that speed and not be able to boot from it was too much. I replaced my motherboard, processor, and memory so I could finally boot from my speedy M.2 PCIe SSD (glad I did, by the way). Now this card sits in a box with all my other spare computer parts, but that's no fault of the card, it works as advertised.

I used this adapter to clear the windows 10 password for my ROG G752VT notebook's NVME boot drive. I put this and the drive in my MSI X99 SLI Deluxe MOBO (which does have a M.2 slot M provision). After disconnecting my SSD boot drive I booted the system with Lasesoft's boot disk and the rest was cake. The notebook would not mount the M.2 drive until it got to the windows login screen and the drive was not accessible using the Windows rescue disk or Lasesoft boot disk and I couldn't figure out how to get the UEFI BIOS to initialize the drive in the ROG. This adapter solved my problem perfectly but the native M.2 would have likely worked just as well if I had flashed the BIOS but horror stories from the past makes me reluctant to possibly brick my desktop. I'm not sure if this adapter will provide M.2 support if the host system doesn't have native UEFI support for NVME, If you use this for my purpose be sure to give the (suddenly new) Admin account a new password or your previous Admin account may not be accessible.

A fantastic option for testing out or making use of NVMe PCIe M.2 drives on systems that do not offer native support (the slots) for M.2 drives. They do not support SATA, however this company does have a separate solution for those that also works quite well. So far in our testing, we haven't ran into any bottlenecks speed wise when comparing it side by side with a system that is utilizing the same drive model within a proper M.2 slot on its motherboard. Therefore this makes it great for benchmarks as well.

I had no idea that my i5-based computer didn't support NVMe. This board installed easily and the SSD board mated with it perfectly, but without my bios supporting NVMe, it would not work, so I had to return it and purchase a SATA SSD.

Not sure why anyone would have a problem with this thing, it's just a PCI-e riser with an M.2 connector.On a side note: no instructions, so make sure you know that the drive slips into the groove on the stand-off and that you don't use a screw to attach the SSD. You need to remove the stand-off using the screw that is on the back.

The NGFF standard has so many variations that it is extremely hard to find a matching SSD adapter. This adapter worked with my Samsung 512GB PM951 NVMe MZVLV512HCJH M.2 NGFF PCIe Gen3 x4 SSD, so it will probably work for any other desperate souls with a similar Samsung M.2 NGFF PCIe SSD.

Fits perfectly in an HP DL360e Gen8 server chassis. Got a 256GB Toshiba OCZ M.2 SSD installed in the PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. I ended up removing the bracket to improve airflow, so the card is just sitting friction-fit inside the PCIe connector, but that works fine.

Used a pair of these in a to add some NVMe drives to a NAS. They are simple, fast, included low profile brackets, have drive activity indicators. Really nothing to complain about.The only improvements I can think of would be a heatsink with fan, and ventilation holes on the brackets.